A new issue of Commentary is out. Jeremy Waldron (NYU): Secularism and the Limits of Community. From The New York Times Magazine, a special issue on the Year in Ideas 2010. The Top 10 Everything of 2010: In 50 wide-ranging lists, Time surveys the highs and lows, the good and the bad, of the past 12 months. From FT, an interview with Rachel Maddow. What makes one team of people smarter than another? A new field of research finds surprising answers. In the Time of Not Yet: Marina Warner on the imaginary of Edward Said. Aside from a small cadre of foreign policy scholars, a few foreign national intelligence services, and Jon Stewart, who benefits from the Wikileaks release? We might not like Mark Zuckerberg or Julian Assange, but we’re going to have to learn to live in the world they’re making. In Defense of DDoS: Denial-of-service attacks are just another form of civil disobedience. If an island state vanishes, is it still a nation? Twenty-five years after his death, Michael Bywater revisits the sacred texts of the pulp science writer turned prophet L Ron Hubbard. The David Epstein incest case: If homosexuality is OK, why is incest wrong? MFA vs. NYC: America now has two distinct literary cultures — which one will last? It's a great time to be rich: The next two years will be the best in living memory for many wealthy Americans to shield their income and fortunes. Why Hollywood hates bad sex: That which the MPAA would have you not see.
